Show BRANCH BETTER OFF rh keynote of the court was sounded by the cadet cadot him stat eif when during the tho course ot of his 2 at Annapolis cit the saId I 1 think that Mr M Branch was indeed fortunate in Ining ing In his place in oln to sleep 1 td d not waking up than to be In mine 11 to live this life uto after this td d deplorable affair There is 15 t L world of p th a In thou those words ord The They show how that is Ii suffering that J 10 which con be in upon him will Nut be than the tot tar tUe ot of the recollection that a s comrade mt death at his hands The evidence throughout shows 01 that had no more thought ot of V than thai he be had bad ot of killing elt when h he went into the ring to toI I ht him bin Witnesses for f r both lIon I have hwa testified that at att t ho C of Ute the battle the con shook Iok honda bands and a agreed reed to be No mn was leCt on either side All differences had sa been boen wiped t D WAY away by the tho encounter The men had bad more respect fo for each CHich other the they 1110 ten other totter bolter was so 50 badly up as asa asa a a Of bloWs that be had bad tit to O 0 U 10 the hospital A few hours the conflict Branch died Men ert ether did not know or of this until late il the th afternoon He at once onee requested I n I he nd md added r I WAS grieved eved beyond ox Well W ll might the young man bt be greve for tor of the two lie he was the themore themore more It Is mJ Impossible to say aay what the out orne ot of the CUi caso will m be though 1 it I certaIn that will leave the tho academy he is expelled or not Ho He will not want to itay where his i will con cont t remind him ot of the fatal en encounter encounter counter Rather will he want to get s far awaY y from Annapolis as he can Ills His career i is ruined lila Ills life lIe Is i spoiled spelled Ye We do not see He sympathy can be withheld from liem him rho nu ca case aho shows a striking laxne ot of ot of the doings or the mid midshipman sJ shipman The Tho young m man n who ret ref creed the tho fight t tes tilled tided that ho he had nineteen I encounters Titis Is little short of absolute proof that the authorities connived at t thorn them |